“He just walked out the door… without saying anything,” Sara told OPEN CASE a few hours ago. “He took advantage of his father being asleep.” The aim is to spread your photo, image and request cooperation from citizens. Martina showed no signs of life, and the signs were not good. After 48 hours of intense searching, fear and nerves, the alarm is deactivated. Martina, Marta (as everyone in the house called her) contacted them. “He reassured him that he was fine and asked us to remove the warnings,” his family explains.
He is 45 years old, has a son and missing since January 9. Without warning, without farewell. He left his father’s house in Puerto Real (Cádiz) first thing in the morning without saying anything to anyone. He did this without medication (he had suffered from depression for years) and with his cell phone turned off. “This is something he has never done,” his frightened sister-in-law told OPEN CASE. “We fear his life may be in danger.”
The risk was high. Social networks were flooded with his photo. The first posters were printed and hung, and the search alert was distributed to different media. “We need help,” Sara pleaded, “any clue that would lead us to her would be important. My sister-in-law wasn’t having a very good time.”
Between 8:30 and 10:00
January 9, 2024. It’s half past eight in the morning. Martha woke up. “He wasn’t feeling very well and his father brought him some ibuprofen,” Sara recalls. The man returns to his room. Marta seems to calm down and falls back asleep. “My father-in-law woke up around 10 in the morning and Marta was no longer there,” explains Sara. She drank coffee before she left. The glass was in the sink. “She took her bag and left the house.”
Hours pass, Marta does not return. Nobody knows where he’s going. He doesn’t answer, he doesn’t call, he doesn’t receive any messages on his mobile phone. “We filed a complaint the same afternoon,” explains Sara. The investigation did not start well: “Agents We explained that Marta had a small fight with her father and brother the night before, went out and did not return home…“. The woman, who has come of age, argues and leaves the house. The first result was that the woman did not return by her own decision.
“I called 112 to give more information,” his sister-in-law said. When she talked about the depression diagnosed years ago, Marta’s struggle with different substance addictions, and the vision of the psychologist who treated her, she said, “He had warned us before, Marta has a high risk of suicide.” The search instantly changed: It was a high-risk disappearance.
Six days ago: homecoming
“He had been at home with his father for six days.” Two months ago, Marta voluntarily entered a detoxification center in Huelva. He wanted to get his life back together, and even though it wasn’t his best moment, The goal was to overcome the addiction that had dominated his daily life for more than a decade.
“I got some kind of permission from the headquarters…” Sara explains. “But he said they gave him a warning there when he was at home…” Warning is the step before export. “Her father was worried and scolded her…Marta’s illness sometimes makes it difficult for her. She lies…”. They argued.
secret messages
Sara went back a few more days to find another reason for her sister-in-law’s absence. It describes a more or less normal Marta. “I didn’t want to do anything to hurt him at the center. He went to the doctor to run errands and not much else. He spent most of his days watching television.“. They noticed that he used his phone a lot. “He hid it to text. We don’t know who he talked to. “We wanted to see it, but we didn’t have time.”
No clue, no news, no trace. Two names rang loudly in the family’s mind: That of his former partner, a man from San Fernando (Cádiz), and that of a colleague from Seville who coincided with him at the centre. The first one opened the door of their house and said, “He says he doesn’t know anything about Marta, she wasn’t there. We were at her house, he claims he never saw her again.” Secondly, the center’s colleague, as the media learned, Days before Marta was given Christmas leave, she was expelled from school.. “We couldn’t contact him. We don’t know anything about him either. We only know that he is from Seville.“.
Hope in Sevilla
“The only hope is that he went there… even if it’s a half-hearted hope, because Marta’s phone is not active And we understand that if he had met someone, I would take her even if it was just to say I’m coming, where are you… I can’t see you“Marta’s family explained.
The family contacted the center to forward that person’s number to them, but “due to data protection they were unable to do so.”
In the middle of a conversation with this psychic, Sara looked at her cell phone. Another of many calls ringing throughout the day. “I hope he calls.” Made.
Sara assures him that he is fine and says “he asked us to withdraw the warning.” “He blocked us and we have no contact. We respect that, at least we know he’s alive. We can rest easy, it was him…”